Lead Financial Analyst​/Technical Manager

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Nova Space Solutions, LLC (NSS) is a joint venture between Wolf Creek Federal Services, Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chugach Government Solutions, LLC) and Amentum Technology, Inc. When you join NSS, you also become a part of a proud legacy of supporting missions while sustaining culture.

The federal division of Chugach Alaska Corporation, Chugach Government Solutions, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, has been supporting critical missions as a government contractor for over 25 years. We are proud to have built, and continue to foster, an incredibly talented team spanning across the globe in hundreds of different fields – each team member proud to serve our country with first-class business services, while also making a difference for our Chugach shareholders.

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The Lead Financial Analyst / Technical Manager provides technical leadership for the COSMIC contract finance organization and is responsible for ensuring the accuracy, consistency, timeliness, and traceability of financial products supporting NASA and program management.

This position serves as the technical lead for financial analysts and finance personnel responsible for recurring contract financial reporting, forecasting, billing support, cost analysis, and customer deliverables. The position is not necessarily the direct personnel supervisor for all finance employees but provides day-to-day technical direction, establishes standards and processes, coordinates workload, and ensures financial products receive appropriate review before release.

The position will initially play a significant role in the COSMIC finance recovery effort, including strengthening financial controls, validating source-to-report processes, documenting procedures, and improving integration and automation of financial data.

Essential

Job Duties:

• Provide technical leadership and day-to-day direction to the COSMIC finance team.
• Coordinate and balance finance-team workload across recurring weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual requirements.
• Lead preparation, review, and quality control of NASA financial deliverables, including 533 reporting, cost files, core variance reporting, weekly financial checkbooks, forecasts, cost allocations, and other contract-required financial products.
• Ensure financial information is accurate, traceable to authoritative source data, and appropriately reconciled before submission.
• Establish and maintain documented financial processes, operating procedures, review requirements, and product ownership.
• Support validation of the financial data chain from employee timekeeping and charge coding through ERP posting, general ledger reporting, and final customer financial products.
• Lead analysis of actual costs, budgets, forecasts, Estimate-at-Completion projections, funding requirements, labor utilization, and financial variances.
• Identify financial discrepancies, determine root causes, coordinate corrective actions, and track issues through closure.
• Establish appropriate preparation, peer-review, management-review, and approval controls for financial deliverables.
• Support monthly financial close and reconciliation activities.
• Work closely with Program Management, Contracts, Operations, Procurement, Human Resources, corporate finance, and other functional organizations.
• Provide financial analysis and recommendations to the General Manager, Deputy General Manager, and program leadership.
• Participate in meetings with NASA financial and contracting personnel and clearly communicate financial status, variances, risks, corrective actions, and…